Wednesday, August 31, 2016

DonaldTrump met earlier today with Mexico President Peña Neito on the subject of immigration policy, building the wall, and other topics of mutual interest.

Trump’s anticipated speech
tonight on Immigration, from Arizona, is being broadcast live at 9pm (6 pm
Phoenix time) on C-Span. If your cable provider does not include C-Span, you
can watch a livestream RSBN video via YouTube (h/t Sundance). The video below is from the Phoenix venue covering pre-speech interviews. It will probably segue straight into Trump's speech; I'll post another link if it does not.

Here's a for sure live stream link to the speech (h/t Sundance). As I post this, Trump has just arrived in Phoenix:

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

A contributor to Forbes, Thomas C. Stewart (retired New York investment banker and a
former U.S. Naval Attack Commander who flew combat during the Gulf War)
wrote about “The Day I Went Head-To-Head With Donald Trump”. It’s a perspective from the
negotiating table.

Whenever I hear
someone complain that Donald Trump is “not presidential,” I reply, “Compared
to whom? Which president are we talking about? . . .

And just what
are the qualities that really matter in a president?

The
overwhelming majority of Mr. Trump’s detractors have never sat across the table
from him to hammer out a multimillion-dollar business deal. I have. So I think
I’m in a better position than they are to judge his effectiveness as a
top-level executive.

. . .

. . . He went
through every element of our proposal with a gimlet eye, challenging our
assumptions, forecasts and business models with an exactitude and a level of
expertise that was most impressive. It was as if he had a Wharton business
professor whispering in his ear.

He wasted no
time on civilities. He was brusque, impatient and dismissive of any information
that he thought was inadequate, or any detail that he thought did not bear
directly on the matter at hand. He cut right to the heart of things.

The senior
members of my negotiating team were the products of privilege and Ivy League
schools, and were highly successful executives in their own right. They were
not used to this kind of treatment.

But for my own
part, I had not only been an attack flight officer in the first Gulf war, I had
also driven a truck through some of New York’s roughest neighborhoods. So I
took it all in stride. Mr. Trump is a New Yorker, I reasoned. Fine. So am I. We
can speak the same language—even if that language is rather coarse to some
ears. We understand each other.

In the end, I
can say that Mr. Trump drove a hard bargain. But he was honest, and he was a
square dealer. When we were through—in less time than we had expected—we had
reached an agreement that was ethical, profitable and fair to all parties
concerned. It was also an agreement that meant good jobs for working people and
healthy tax revenues for the local government.

If we didn’t
come away from the table liking Mr. Trump, there’s no question that we came
away with a lot of respect for him. He was a tough, shrewd, no-nonsense
executive who knew how to get things done, and done quickly. He was also an
adversary whom no one would want to mess with.

Monday, August 29, 2016

Hillary
Clinton is the first and only nominee for President who never held a press
conference during the entire Democrat primary race. . . .

If you look at
Hillary Clinton’s campaign calendar –SEE
HERE– . . . there are 15 listed events. However, . . . what you
notice is that Secretary Clinton is not actually attending 14 of these events;
they are being attended by surrogates.

. . .

The only event
Hillary Clinton is actually attending is the last one on September 26th, the
debate.

Speculations abound: is it her health?
Is the fix in (if so, why is she still fund-raising?) Is she staying out of
sight to avoid a further drop in the polls due to the unlikeability factor? Whatever
the explanation, it is bizarre behavior in a presidential candidate.

Sunday, August 28, 2016

If
your neighbor or relative relies on, say, the New York Times or ABC news or
local TV news for his/her information, you can be 100% sure they are NOT
getting the news. I’ve had a tiny bit of success in persuading family and
friends to expand their sources of news, as that approach is less confrontational than criticizing
particular news sources.

I always start by suggesting the online aggregators.
The Drudge Report is an obvious place to start. Next on my recommended list is
RealClearPolitics, not because it is at the top of my own list, but because it
posts news and analysis from the far left to the far right, and everything in
between. It’s user friendly. The site itself doesn’t provide for reader
comments, so it as close to neutral as possible. (I also suggest conservative talk radio - any conservative talk radio -- for those who don't want to go the internet route.)

A
voter who begins to realize that the reports they are relying on are
incomplete, heavily edited, selective, etc. will perhaps go to the next step
and further expand their sources of news. A few people I know have had the
ultimate Epiphany when they realized to their shock and horror that The Plain Dealer, The New York Times, CNN [or fill in the blank] are not fair and
balanced. (For what it is worth, I don’t rely on Fox much, either.) But if you
have any relatives or friends who will tolerate a conversation on the media and
news, maybe they’ll consider a suggestion that they try expanding their sources
of news, at least for a few days just to see what they find.

Steve
Feinstein at American Thinker posted an article (“Pre-Empting the Liberal Media”)
on media bias and its role in shaping public opinion. Here are some extracts:

Liberal mainstream media bias
for Hillary Clinton is the single biggest factor so far in this election season
contributing to her lead in the polls. The nightly news on NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR,
the NY Times, Washington Post, the morning and late-night TV shows,
CNN, MSNBC, and all the websites associated with these sources are strongly and
openly behind Hillary and her “first woman” status. Many so-called journalists
have dropped any pretense of objectivity and are quite unashamedly and openly supportive
of Clinton, while they derisively dismiss Trump as an unserious nonentity.

Ostensibly, it is Trump’s presence in this year’s race that has caused liberal
bias to be so prominent, but no rational observer could possibly think that the
media would show any less favoritism towards First-Woman Hillary if her
Republican opponent were Cruz, Rubio, or Kasich.

Hillary has many well-known
vulnerabilities and character flaws: her role in Benghazi debacle and the
subsequent rewriting of history in order to avoid accountability and blame, her
non-accomplishments in every major foreign affairs arena where she played a
role as Secretary of State, her private e-mail server and her continual
distortions and parsing in an attempt to deflect scrutiny and shift responsibility
(“Colin Powell told me to do it!”), and of course, the widening-by-the-day
Clinton Foundation corruption controversy.

These factors are
completely independent of who her opponent happens to be. . . .

. . . The "circular firing squad" that
Republicans have created this year because of Trump -- who won the primaries
fair and square, regardless of anyone's personal feelings about him -- is truly
idiotic and inexplicable.

The Republicans need to
remember who their real opponent is in 2016 -- it’s not the “untraditional
Republican” Donald Trump, it’s the liberal media propping up an astonishingly
deficient Hillary Clinton. . . .

Saturday, August 27, 2016

The title is a 96-page report, sources included, from EJUSA. No, I had not heard of EJUSA, either, until I read a
comment by CM-TX on the Treehouse blog here. (If you are planning to work the
polls, this report will be of particular interest to you.) The parts of the
report that I read through struck me as responsibly researched and digested. In
brief,

Election
Justice USA (EJUSA) is a national, non-partisan team of seasoned election
integrity experts, attorneys, statisticians, journalists, and activists. The
circumstances surrounding Arizona’s presidential primary on March 22nd,
2016—widely acknowledged as one of the most disastrous election days in recent
memory—were the lightning rod that catalyzed the formation of EJUSA. Throughout
the course of the 2016 presidential primary season, EJUSA has emerged as a
leader in the fight for honest elections, pursuing legal action in several
states in an attempt to counteract specific forms of targeted voter suppression
and election fraud.

Unfortunately, Ohio turns up in the document word search 15 times. Here are two relevant sections:

OHIO Attorney Bob Fitrakis has filed a
lawsuit against Edison Media Research asserting that Democratic presidential
candidate Bernie Sanders actually earned more pledged delegates in the
primaries than were shown by the results. The suit seeks the release of raw
exit polling data which documents dramatic differences between exit polls and
electronic vote totals in eleven states in the 2016 presidential primaries.
Exit polls have been adjusted to fit electronic vote totals since 2004, when
they appeared to show Kerry winning against Bush. At that time, Karl Rove (then
an assistant to George Bush) developed a theory to explain the alleged
unreliability of exit polls. After citizens on the internet began to notice
wide discrepancies in this election, the exit poll sponsors, The Media
Consortium and Edison Media Research, canceled exit polls for all remaining
states in the primary season. The lawsuit demands that media organizations
release the raw data for the 2016 exit polls for the first time.

. . .

Of ten places
where exit polling has missed by more than 7% (South Carolina, Alabama,
Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi, Ohio, New York,
California), seven are states where all or the majority of election
jurisdictions are using machines ten years old or greater. For six of these
seven states (excluding California which only included an early voting poll
with a very large discrepancy of 14- 22%) the average initial exit polling miss
is a whopping 9.98%.

Bear in mind, this report analyzes the
Democrat Party primary voting. I vote in Cuyahoga County, I mark my choices on
a paper ballot that is fed into a scanner for tabulation. At least in that
case, there is a paper trail that can be used to reconcile votes cast with
final results. That will not be the case in many other counties. Scary.

Friday, August 26, 2016

Yesterday, I appended a link to an
article by David Horowitz at FrontPage Magazine. It was an afterthought posted
on the blog about Rep. Marcia Fudge’s
complaining that Trump rallies are not attended by people of color. Horowitz’s
article is worth a blog on its own. The entire article is here, under the title "Donald Trump’s Lincolnesque Moment: A landmark in the emergence of a new
Republican Party”. Here’s a take-away:

Trump’s Dimondale speech
was a pledge to African Americans trapped in the blighted zones and killing
fields of inner cities exclusively ruled by Democrats for half a century and
more, and exploited by their political leaders for votes, and also used as
fodder for slanders directed at their Republican opponents. This was his
appeal:

Tonight, I am asking
for the vote of every African-American citizen in this country who wants a
better future. The inner cities of our country have been run by the Democratic
Party for 50 years. Their policies have produced only poverty,
joblessness, failing schools, and broken homes. It is time to hold Democratic
Politicians accountable for what they have done to these communities. It
is time to hold failed leaders accountable for their results, not just their
empty words.

Time to hold the
Democrats responsible for what they have done. For twenty years I and many
others on the right have waited for Republican leaders to do just this. Until
now we have despaired of seeing this happen in our lifetimes. But here is Trump
articulating the very message we have been waiting for - support for America’s
inner city poor – a message that should have been front and center of every
Republican campaign for the last fifty years.

Trump: “Look at what
the Democratic Party has done to the city of Detroit. Forty percent of
Detroit’s residents live in poverty. Half of all Detroit residents do not
work. Detroit tops the list of Most Dangerous Cities in terms of violent crime.
This is the legacy of the Democrat politicians who have run this city.
This is the result of the policy agenda embraced by Hillary Clinton…. The one
thing every item in Hillary Clinton’s agenda has in common is that it takes
jobs and opportunities from African-American workers. Her support for open
borders. Her fierce opposition to school choice. Her plan to
massively raise taxes on small businesses. Her opposition to American
energy. And her record of giving our jobs away to other countries.”

Tying the fight to
liberate African Americans and other minorities from the violent urban
wastelands in which Democrats have trapped them to his other proposals– secure
borders, law and order to make urban environments safe, jobs for American
workers, putting Americans first – these are a sure sign that Trump has an
integrated vision of the future towards which he is working. Call it populism
if you will. To me it seems like a clear-eyed conservative plan to restore
American values and even to unify America’s deeply fractured electorate.

I love this line:
“America must reject the bigotry of Hillary Clinton who sees communities of
color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.” Yes
African Americans and other Americans too are suffocating under the racism of
the Democratic Party which takes African Americans for granted and lets the
communities of the most vulnerable sink ever deeper into a maelstrom of poverty
and violence without end.

Read the rest here. Whether you
support Trump or not, his message should be heard by anyone who considers
him- or herself a Tea Party person.

Brexit advocate Nigel Farage was
Donald Trump’s special guest at yesterday’s rally in Jackson, Mississippi,
attended by around 10,000 Trump supporters. It’s just over 6-minutes on the YouTube video, it’s
fun to watch, and the two campaigns, Brexit and Trump’s, have much in common:

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Appeals court says Ohio can scrap 'Golden Week': A
federal appeals court panel ruled Tuesday that Ohio can shorten its early-voting
period, handing a victory to Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted over Ohio
Democrats who challenged the change. As
cleveland.com's Robert Higgs explains, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals panel overturned a lower-court ruling that the state could not get rid
of its first week of early voting – the so-called "Golden Week,"
during which Ohioans can register and vote early at the same time. Ohio
Democratic Party chairman David Pepper indicated the party may appeal.

Who benefits from “Golden Week” except those
looking for opportunities to stuff the ballot box? This ruling is at least a
start to restore some integrity to Ohio voting.

Monday, August 22, 2016

via Breitbart: As conservative icon and living legend Phyllis Schlafly celebrated her 92nd birthday this week, leaders throughout the nation-state conservative movement offered their birthday well wishes to a woman whom they described as “America’s Margaret Thatcher,” “our true hero,” and “one of America’s greatest patriots.”

If you are trying to follow the wild
swings in the media polling leading up to the Presidential election, you’re
probably risking whiplash. Hillary’s up, Trump is down, Trump is up, Hillary is
down. Are ANY of the polls cited by anchors and talking heads reliable?
Sundance at Conservative Treehouse followed up on the issue yesterday:

Just because
the media is predictably beginning to sell poll stats beneficial to Donald
Trump doesn’t mean they are any less manipulated.

On June 15th aggregate
media polling had Hillary Clinton leading by 15 points. On July 15th the same media
polling had Trump +17. On August 8th the pendulum swing
was back to Hillary +15,…. and now today the media signals of a tied race begin.

It’s all
nonsense. All of it. Polls don’t swing 20 to 30 +/- points every
few weeks.

It’s all about the media “narratives” –
manufactured for daily consumption to control voters who don’t question the
information. Watch your evening news program and see how these media talking
heads set up a “discussion” based on their phony-baloney polls, reports, etc.
It’s not just CNN. It’s the alphabet networks, Fox, or, if you’re still
getting news from the mainstream print media, it’s the NY Times and all its derivatives.

Alexandria, VA – Today Great America PAC, the leading independent committee supporting Donald J. Trump for President, announced new State Leadership Teams in Ohio and Pennsylvania, two critical battleground states essential to victory in November. These leaders are the first of several battleground teams coming together in key states that will be announced soon as part of Great America PAC’s extensive GOTV operation.

“Donald Trump has built tremendous grassroots support across the country and we are committed to maximizing it in battleground states in the final months,” said Ed Rollins, Great America PAC lead strategist. “We are a full-service PAC expanding and improving the model of Super PACs by doing far more than just TV ads. We’ve done the critical spade work of identifying millions of Trump supporters in recent months and now our robust ground game will work to turn them out in the November election”.

Great America PAC is committed to having maximum impact on the election and supporting Donald Trump’s candidacy by engaging key voting blocs and turning them out to vote on Election Day. The State Leadership Teams are as follows:

Great America PAC is the premiere pro-Trump Super PAC led by veteran Republican strategist, Ed Rollins. The group has raised and spent over $9 million in support of Donald Trump’s candidacy, broadcasting more than 5,000 TV spots, secured over 140,000 donations, and built a file of millions of active, newly engaged Trump supporters across the country.

. . . In an
appearance Monday on Fox, Clarke,
who is African-American, offered his explanation for the major cause of riots
in Milwaukee and other cities: “You know what encourages this? The growth of
the welfare state. These are underclass behaviors. Seventy percent of the kids
born in Milwaukee are born without an engaged father in their life. So I look
at the progressive policies that have marginalized black dads. They push them
to the side and say ‘you’re not needed.’ Uncle Sam is going to be the dad, he’s
going to provide for the kids, he’s going to feed the kids. Uncle Sam has been
a horrible father. Uncle Sam does not love these kids. He might keep a little
food in their mouths and that is about it. But we all know the importance of an
intact family, what it can do to shape the behavior of kids.”

Clarke called
progressive policies “a total disaster,” not only in Milwaukee, but in Chicago,
Baltimore, New York and elsewhere. “These progressive policies have hit the black
community like a nuclear blast and until we reverse this government dependency,
that’s what creates all of this and it encourages it by the way, along with
some questionable lifestyle choices.”

His answer?
“Until the black community does a self-evaluation and until they begin to
self-criticize about some of the lifestyle choices they are making, this stuff
is going to continue to fester.”

. . .

Why do
African-Americans continue to vote for liberal Democrats who have done little
to help them and, in fact, often cause more harm than good?

Again, Clarke gets
it right: “Until we push back against this progressive ideology, this dangerous
ideology that has been very destructive to the black community and that’s what
I’m trying to do -- it’s Job One right now in terms of messaging -- this thing
is only going to get worse.”

Monday, August 15, 2016

GOP Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump
spoke today in Youngstown, Ohio on the threat to America and western civilization
coming from Islamic jihad. The full text is here and contains extensive footnotes. Two
take-aways:

The
Obama-Clinton foreign policy has unleashed ISIS, destabilized the Middle East,
and put the nation of Iran – which chants ‘Death to America’– in a dominant
position of regional power and, in fact, aspiring to be a dominant world power.
It all began in 2009 with what has become known as President Obama’s global
‘Apology Tour.’

In a series of
speeches, President Obama described America as “arrogant,” “dismissive”
“derisive” and a “colonial power.” He informed other countries that he would be
speaking up about America’s “past errors.” He pledged that we would no longer
be a “senior partner,” that “sought to dictate our terms.” He lectured CIA officers
of the need to acknowledge their mistakes, and described Guantanamo Bay as a
“rallying cry for our enemies.”

Perhaps no
speech was more misguided than President Obama’s speech to the Muslim World
delivered in Cairo, Egypt, in 2009.

In winning the
Cold War, President Ronald Reagan repeatedly touted the superiority of freedom
over communism, and called the USSR the Evil Empire.

Yet, when
President Obama delivered his address in Cairo, no such moral courage could be
found. Instead of condemning the oppression of women and gays in many Muslim
nations, and the systematic violations of human rights, or the financing of
global terrorism, President Obama tried to draw an equivalency between our
human rights record and theirs.

His naïve words were followed by even more
naïve actions.

. . .

Our victory in
the Cold War relied on a bipartisan and international consensus. That is what
we must have to defeat Radical Islamic terrorism. But just like we couldn’t
defeat communism without acknowledging that communism exists – or explaining
its evils – we can’t defeat Radical Islamic Terrorism unless we do the same.
This also means we have to promote the exceptional virtues of our own way of
life – and expecting that newcomers to our society do the same. Pride in our institutions,
our history and our values should be taught by parents and teachers, and
impressed upon all who join our society.

Assimilation
is not an act of hostility, but an expression of compassion. Our system of
government, and our American culture, is the best in the world and will produce
the best outcomes for all who adopt it.

This approach
will not only make us safer, but bring us closer together as a country.

Renewing this
spirit of Americanism will help heal the divisions in our country. It will do so
by emphasizing what we have in common – not what pulls us apart.

Psycholinguistics
and cognitive science have long been interested in linguistic relativity – the
concept that language influences way of thinking. George Orwell, the
author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, also considered: “But if thought corrupts
language, language can also corrupt thought.” In the dystopian
novel, Orwell depicted a totalitarian state using controlled language and
“thought-crime” charges to keep people from thinking. Throughout history,
real-life dictatorships have been known to “pre-define” reality via meaningless
slogans, political correctness, and punishment of cerebral dissent.

The fact that
several months before elections we are constantly told that a candidate has
already won definitely rings an alarm bell. Orwellian “Newspeak”
morphed today into NewsSpeak, with the mainstream media acting as thought
police. While we are being nonchalantly reminded about a long list of
observable crimes that go unpunished, the media cheer those crimes’ authors and
try to contaminate us with the “enthusiasm.” One can’t help but notice
how visionary Orwell’s
writing was: “[s]o much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with
fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.”

Where did ol’
good logic go? The processes used in thinking and reasoning should be
natural to homo sapiens, and it’s impossible not to have a brain-ache when you
clearly see that it´s not the case.

Thursday, August 11, 2016

I run hot and cold on Ann Coulter, but
her column yesterday at The Daily Caller -- on Trump, the Media, Crooked Hillary, and the Second Amendment blow-up -- made sense to me:

Even having
predicted that the media’s attacks on Trump would be unprecedented, I’m still
amazed. Every single news outlet is dedicated to hysterically denouncing Trump,
every minute of every day, while cooing at Hillary.

Everything
Hillary has ever touched has failed, been engulfed in scandal, resulted in
massive investigations, litigation, financial ruin, prison or death. The final
stage of any Hillary enterprise is a grand announcement that Hillary did not
technically break the law. Or no one can prove she did. Or, even if she did, no
one ever gets prosecuted for it.

She’s prone to
coughing fits and lapses of memory in the middle of speeches, and falls down
all the time. But that’s not nearly as important as the media’s manufactured
story about Trump throwing a baby out of a rally!

. . .

The main story
this week: The media’s psychotic claim that Trump called for Hillary’s
assassination.

Trump said:
“Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment. If she
gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second
Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.”

Hmmm. What
could Second Amendment people “do”? One thing they could do is what they did do
— in 1994. That was the year gun rights supporters voted out dozens of
Democrats who voted wrong on guns, ushering in the first Republican Congress in
40 years.

It’s been
nearly a quarter century, and the Democrats are still so traumatized by their
sweeping losses in 1994, that, even after Gabby Giffords was shot in Arizona,
even after the Aurora movie theater shooting, even after the Sandy Hook
massacre, Democrats refused to take up a gun bill in the U.S. Senate.

Apparently,
the only news you’ll be getting from now until the election is the media’s own
insane interpretation of every little thing Trump says or does. . . .There’s no
way to phrase something so that it can’t be lied about.

. . .

There’s no
strategy for overcoming this level of media hostility. Trump has made some mistakes
during this campaign, but he hasn’t done anything wrong for months now. He
could say “yes,” and the media would change the question to, “Are you a child
molester?”

Many readers will recognize Adams as a
frequent guest on prime-time TV news programs. He recently weighed in on various aspects
of voter fraud, all of which will affect this year’s election. Here’s an
extract from his article at PJ Media:

The integrity
of our elections [is] suffering from a coordinated, multi-million dollar attack
on multiple fronts. It’s far more complicated than one centralized
high-powered conspiracy to “rig” the election. A more sophisticated
understanding of what is happening is essential to combat the real threat
to our elections.

Here are five
ways that the integrity of elections are under attack:

5. Big money
organizations fight against election integrity

Large
brick-and-mortar organizations with multi-million dollar endowments are
fighting to undermine the integrity of American elections. These organizations,
such as Project Vote, Demos, the ACLU, Advancement Project, and the League of
Women Voters have vast financial resources. They have used these resources in
key states such as Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and
elsewhere to attack election integrity measures. They bring attacks against
Voter ID laws, but they also bring more important efforts, such as attacks
against citizenship verification.

. . .

I am involved
in litigation across the
country to help election integrity. In one lawsuit in a swing state,
we discovered that non-citizens were voting illegally in Presidential
elections. This is both a federal and state felony. When we asked the election
supervisor for records showing referral to law enforcement officials, none
existed -- because no referral was ever made. Never mind that dozens and
dozens of aliens were participating in the election process in just one county.
Imagine how many participate statewide. Yet nothing was done to prosecute the
illegal voting -- so word spreads through the community that illegal voting is
a hobby that goes unpunished.

Rigged?

These same big
money organizations send swarms of lawyers to the smallest court hearings, so
many that sometimes there isn’t enough room for them in the courtroom.

. . .

Non-citizen
voting helps the left win elections. Most of the groups in this traveling
roadshow are 501(c)(3) charities.

I doubt very
much that Lois Lerner’s Exempt Organizations Unit at the IRS has sent them a
letter asking for their social media passwords or the text of prayers
recited at meetings.

4. A focus on
process brings policy results

Republicans
focus on policy. Democrats focus on process. Democrats and the left know
if they alter the rules, they can win the elections. Better still, if they
alter the rules and brand it a civil rights matter, they disguise their
partisan goals with something that sounds better.

What do I mean
by process?

Years ago, we
all voted on Election Day. That made it harder for the machine to motivate the
unmotivated on one single day. Now? The election is spread out over weeks of
early voting.

We used to
register to vote in advance. Now, instant registration is another process that
helps the demographic that has difficulty planning ahead. It means you can
register and vote at the same time, making it harder to verify eligibility.

In Ohio, you
could register to vote and vote weeks in advance at the same time. When Ohio
discovered that California and New York residents such as Amy
Little and Yolanda Hippensteele were registering and voting simultaneously
for Obama in 2008, Ohio changed the law to eliminate this “Golden Week.”
Naturally, the Big Money Organizations (See #[5], above) sued.

Bush-appointed
federal judge Michael Watson ruled that such a change violates the Voting
Rights Act and struck down the election integrity measure.

You don’t need
someone sitting in a smoke-filled command bunker to rig an election. There are
more subtle and more effective ways to affect elections.

3. Big Law

The well-funded
organizations fighting to block election integrity laws are helped by some of
the nation’s largest law firms -- for free!

These law
firms use the inflated fees their corporate clients pay to subsidize helping
left-wing groups attack election integrity laws.

. . .

The attack on
Voter ID isn’t the only instance where large law firms donate their free time
to leftist organizations with multi-million dollar endowments. Nearly any time
there is an attack on election integrity, Big Law helps.

. . .

2. Failure to
maintain rolls

Millions of
voter registrations are wrong or out of date. Hundreds of counties, including
many in swing states, have more registrants than eligible people alive. That
doesn’t mean millions of votes are being cast illegally -- but corrupted rolls
provide the perfect environment for election corruption. It’s what allowed
Democratic Congressional nominee Wendy Rosen to vote twice for President Obama
in both Maryland and Florida.

The guiltiest
culprit for corrupted rolls is the Obama Justice Department. It refuses to do
anything about the failure to keep rolls clean. Their failure to act is both
deliberate and ideologically driven.

. . .

If Trump
becomes president, sweeping away the lawlessness inside the Justice Department
that turned the federal government into silent partners with election gangsters
like Wendy Rosen should be a top priority. It’s no accident that vote
fraudsters across the country, including Melowese Richardson and others, get a
free ride from this DOJ and never face criminal prosecution.

1.Academics and
media lying about election integrity

The final way
our electoral system is endangered is through the pack of lies pushed by
academics and the media. If you pay attention to legacy media, voter fraud
doesn’t exist -- only racists want election integrity, and Jim Crow is back.

When it comes
to covering election integrity, some of the media are lazy, the rest are
activists with by-lines.

. . .

Is the
November election rigged? Certainly not in the way you might have thought it
was. The election is afflicted with something far more dangerous than a single
plot to flip the outcome. The affliction is diffuse, decentralized, and funded
by millions of dollars.